Today was the collection of unwanted bulky goods in our village. It happens twice a year. We have a complete hodgepodge of goods on the street waiting to be collected. There is everything you can imagine from armchairs, beds, and lamps.
Someone even put a complete bed sofa outside, which had hardly ever been used. Yes, it was me. I had a deal with my neighbour that when the time came he would put it outside for me and yesterday the time had come. He is fully equipped with rollers and in five minutes it was outside. Today the lorry came and took everything and at last this white elephant of a sofa disappeared from my life. I was so glad.
As you can see from the collection there is a bit of everything. Someone had about 500 old music casettes and I felt for their previous owner. We also had a few hundred but I had thrown them out gradually in the garbage bags. If you really need something then you can drive around in a truck and take what you find before the men from the authorities arrive and dispose of everything. We often see the trucks in the early morning. That is probably the lucrative part of it all, when they know how to sell the unwanted goods.
There are still some objects on the surrounding streets, but these are all metallic. For some reason the state collects metal separately. Probably it is disposed of in a different place.
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We have this too in our town, spring and fall clean-up. I am very grateful for those days as it saves me trips to the dump. It is also a good time to reflect as i am always embarrassed by the amount of things we put out.
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I am glad for it as well. We really do collect so much trash in our lives.
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In our town you get 2 vouchers a year for collection of bulky goods and then you are allocated a specific date. The neighbour down the road must have misunderstood or mixed up the dates – his rubbish has been littering the street for the last two weeks.
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It’s only twice a year here. We have certain moving times and it coincides with those dates.
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We have the same deal here,though when people put it out,out of turn,it is picked up. Otherwise our waste is categorised by type into 4 bins.
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Very similar here. Although, technically taking rubbish that is put out for collection, is considered stealing 🙄 I don’t know if that law is enforced, though.
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I didn’t think of that. Stealing from land fill
I don’t know whether the council does repairs.
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I’m not sure (they do repairs but there are special collection points for repairable goods). I think it is one of these laws that have been thought of incompletely different times.
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And the jigsaw doesn’t fit. I noticed this morning that the soft plastic collection point has gone from the local shopping centre. The next one is in the adjacent council area. Too far unless you really intend to be there.
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We have those shoppers, too, that browse the streets before the big trash pickup day. I wondered if you did. I guess there are some deals to be had.
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My neighbour found a nice lamp which was in good condition. I am really just reducing the items I no longer want. When you become a golden oldie you realize how muchi unwanted surplus you collect through life.
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Yes, people collect the copper from electric appliance,and repair and sell them on.
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Should read and furniture and repair it
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We have that here where I live twice a year, too. We also have a lot of scavenger hunters.
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I don’t mind the hunters as long as my unwanted items disappear forever.
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